influenza

English Thesaurus

1. an acute febrile highly contagious viral disease (noun.state)

hypernym	:	contagion, contagious disease,
definition	:	any disease easily transmitted by contact (noun.state)

hypernym	:	respiratory disease, respiratory disorder, respiratory illness,
definition	:	a disease affecting the respiratory system (noun.state)

hyponym	:	asian influenza, asiatic flu,
definition	:	influenza caused by the Asian virus that was first isolated in 1957 (noun.state)

hyponym	:	swine flu, swine influenza,
definition	:	an acute and highly contagious respiratory disease of swine caused by the orthomyxovirus thought to be the same virus that caused the 1918 influenza pandemic (noun.state)